Myrthe Bergstra
List of John Benjamins publications for which Myrthe Bergstra plays a role.
Articles
2017 The change of Frisian infinitives Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017, Lestrade, Sander and Bert Le Bruyn (eds.), pp. 17–29 | Article
This paper discusses the two types of infinitives in Frisian: infinitives ending in -E (e.g. rinne “walk”) and infinitives ending in -EN (e.g. rinnen “walk”). It shows that their distribution can be accounted for by their different underlying syntactic structure: the -E infinitive has a fully… read more
2013 Children’s ability to use speaker certainty in learning novel words Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
One of the cues that children might use in learning words is the level of certainty that speakers demonstrate in their naming of a novel object. This study presented 52 4–5 year old Dutch children with a word-learning task in which two puppets each used the same label for a different novel object.… read more